Amy C Fan (she/her)
@amycfanphd.bsky.social
AP Giannini Postdoc Fellow with Max Krummel @ UCSF
Previously Stanford Immunology PhD with Ravi Majeti, Broad Institute, MIT
Can be found thinking about myeloid cells, teaching, & dancing
amycfan.su.domains
Previously Stanford Immunology PhD with Ravi Majeti, Broad Institute, MIT
Can be found thinking about myeloid cells, teaching, & dancing
amycfan.su.domains
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A new class of hope is here: #StanDOM's Gabriel Mannis is helping lead the charge with menin inhibitors – newly FDA-approved drugs transforming #leukemia care & rewriting what's possible for patients. https://stanford.io/4o3vi7Y
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A new class of hope is here: #StanDOM's Gabriel Mannis is helping lead the charge with menin inhibitors – newly FDA-approved drugs transforming #leukemia care & rewriting what's possible for patients. https://stanford.io/4o3vi7Y
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#Medsky🧪 #immunosky #publichealth @thelancet.com How the body distinguishes between intruders and its own cells - The origins of tolerance: the 2025 #Nobelprize in #medicine
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The origins of tolerance: the 2025 Nobel prize in medicine
Talha Burki speaks with Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi about their
Nobel-winning discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance.
www.thelancet.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#Medsky🧪 #immunosky #publichealth @thelancet.com How the body distinguishes between intruders and its own cells - The origins of tolerance: the 2025 #Nobelprize in #medicine
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Join our community of more than 120 ambitious research programmes in infectious disease, chemical biology, and many other areas of biomedicine - all under one roof with fantastic facilities and support.
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Join our community of more than 120 ambitious research programmes in infectious disease, chemical biology, and many other areas of biomedicine - all under one roof with fantastic facilities and support.
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Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.
Apply by 05 November 2025
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Apply by 05 November 2025
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PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!
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⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
OGA - Only Good Antibodies Community
onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?
Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk
Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
September 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!
We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!
We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Our paper made the cover of Nature Immunology’s September issue! 🎉
Aren’t dendritic cells beautiful? 😍
SEM shows pDCs as they switch identity into cDC2-like cells.
Congrats to the whole team! 👏
🔗 www.nature.com/ni/volumes/2...
Aren’t dendritic cells beautiful? 😍
SEM shows pDCs as they switch identity into cDC2-like cells.
Congrats to the whole team! 👏
🔗 www.nature.com/ni/volumes/2...
September 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our paper made the cover of Nature Immunology’s September issue! 🎉
Aren’t dendritic cells beautiful? 😍
SEM shows pDCs as they switch identity into cDC2-like cells.
Congrats to the whole team! 👏
🔗 www.nature.com/ni/volumes/2...
Aren’t dendritic cells beautiful? 😍
SEM shows pDCs as they switch identity into cDC2-like cells.
Congrats to the whole team! 👏
🔗 www.nature.com/ni/volumes/2...
New #majetilab publication!
Asiri identifies 3 human MPP subsets from adult bone marrow and evaluates their engraftment + differentiation potential. Bonus: a single-cell multi-omics resource.
Check it out here ➡️ bit.ly/4mFSBEa
@stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
Asiri identifies 3 human MPP subsets from adult bone marrow and evaluates their engraftment + differentiation potential. Bonus: a single-cell multi-omics resource.
Check it out here ➡️ bit.ly/4mFSBEa
@stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
A single-cell framework identifies functionally and molecularly distinct multipotent progenitors in adult human hematopoiesis
Ediriwickrema et al. conducted a systematic evaluation of human bone marrow cells
and provide an updated model of adult hematopoiesis, which includes distinct, immunophenotypically
defined, multipoten...
bit.ly
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New #majetilab publication!
Asiri identifies 3 human MPP subsets from adult bone marrow and evaluates their engraftment + differentiation potential. Bonus: a single-cell multi-omics resource.
Check it out here ➡️ bit.ly/4mFSBEa
@stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
Asiri identifies 3 human MPP subsets from adult bone marrow and evaluates their engraftment + differentiation potential. Bonus: a single-cell multi-omics resource.
Check it out here ➡️ bit.ly/4mFSBEa
@stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs
September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!
August 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!
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Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars!
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
Science Fellows
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars!
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu
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Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!
Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!
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Gianna Hammer & @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social are co-organizing the 64th annual Midwinter Conference of Immunologists Jan 24-27, 2026. It's a wonderful meeting with broad topics, incredible speakers, fantastic location & lots of awards for trainees. Can't wait to see you there! www.midwconfimmunol.org
Midwinter Conference of Immunologists
The Midwinter Conference of Immunologists was founded in 1961 by a small group of Immunologists, among them Drs. Dan Campbell and Ray Owen. The goal of the Midwinter Conference is to provide a forum w...
www.midwconfimmunol.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gianna Hammer & @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social are co-organizing the 64th annual Midwinter Conference of Immunologists Jan 24-27, 2026. It's a wonderful meeting with broad topics, incredible speakers, fantastic location & lots of awards for trainees. Can't wait to see you there! www.midwconfimmunol.org
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
@joyywu.bsky.social has a simple but powerful message for early-career investigators: choose your mentor not your project. "So often we think about selecting research projects based on a topic or field of interest, but great mentorship is priceless and lasts a lifetime.”
August 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@joyywu.bsky.social has a simple but powerful message for early-career investigators: choose your mentor not your project. "So often we think about selecting research projects based on a topic or field of interest, but great mentorship is priceless and lasts a lifetime.”
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.
August 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
A new special issue of Science explores the immune system at the molecular and cellular level and how it has evolved to govern multiple facets of human health.
Learn more: scim.ag/3IYhnk7
Learn more: scim.ag/3IYhnk7
August 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A new special issue of Science explores the immune system at the molecular and cellular level and how it has evolved to govern multiple facets of human health.
Learn more: scim.ag/3IYhnk7
Learn more: scim.ag/3IYhnk7
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
July 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
Macrophages kind of look like gastly (the Pokémon)
Macrophage photo credit: Cell Wiki
Macrophage photo credit: Cell Wiki
July 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Macrophages kind of look like gastly (the Pokémon)
Macrophage photo credit: Cell Wiki
Macrophage photo credit: Cell Wiki
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
Engineering the gut microbiome in people with hyperoxaluria to avoid kidney stones
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
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@science.org
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic
Precision microbiome programming for therapeutic applications is limited by challenges in achieving reproducible colonic colonization. Previously, we created an exclusive niche that we used to engraft...
science.org
July 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Engineering the gut microbiome in people with hyperoxaluria to avoid kidney stones
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
New research from @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social reveals a gene signature that can predict severe illness before infection even happens. Featuring #StanDOM's Purvesh Khatri. stan.md/4k8qIT9
July 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
New research from @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social reveals a gene signature that can predict severe illness before infection even happens. Featuring #StanDOM's Purvesh Khatri. stan.md/4k8qIT9
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
Anyone have experience with IV mRNA-LNP vaccination in animals? I am specifically interested in LNP formulations and what the preferred formulation for IV is.
July 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Anyone have experience with IV mRNA-LNP vaccination in animals? I am specifically interested in LNP formulations and what the preferred formulation for IV is.
New endosomal protein network resource: bit.ly/endomapv1
Importantly, interaction networks are informed by *multiple* proteomic methods to capture interacting proteins and alphafold structural predictions.
Bonus: validation of new interactions in neurons: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09059-y
Importantly, interaction networks are informed by *multiple* proteomic methods to capture interacting proteins and alphafold structural predictions.
Bonus: validation of new interactions in neurons: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09059-y
July 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
New endosomal protein network resource: bit.ly/endomapv1
Importantly, interaction networks are informed by *multiple* proteomic methods to capture interacting proteins and alphafold structural predictions.
Bonus: validation of new interactions in neurons: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09059-y
Importantly, interaction networks are informed by *multiple* proteomic methods to capture interacting proteins and alphafold structural predictions.
Bonus: validation of new interactions in neurons: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09059-y
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
"No one’s Ph.D. journey is the same, and no one deserves to be shamed for how long it takes." #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/44q2rCg
July 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"No one’s Ph.D. journey is the same, and no one deserves to be shamed for how long it takes." #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/44q2rCg
Reposted by Amy C Fan (she/her)
Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...